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In addition to director and producer, he was also an actor and screenwriter in his films. Smith married three times, including the actress Lucille Smith, who used the screen name Jean Paige. In 1952 Albert E. Smith, along with coauthor Phil A. Koury, published Smith's autobiography, Two Reels and a Crank.
Albert E. Smith fue un ilusionista, director, productor y guionista cinematográfico estadounidense de origen inglés, cuya carrera transcurrió en la época del cine mudo. En 1887 fundó, junto a James Stuart Blackton, los Vitagraph Studios.
Albert Edward Smith (4 June 1875 – 1 August 1958) was an English stage magician, film director and producer, and a naturalized American. He founded Vitagraph Studios with his business partner James Stuart Blackton in 1897.
Albert E. Smith is known as an Director, Producer, Story, Actor, Presenter, Camera Operator, Supervisor of Production Resources, Scenario Writer, Writer, and Other. Some of his work includes The Clown and the Alchemist, The Congress of Nations, Searching Ruins on Broadway, Galveston, for Dead Bodies, Firemen Rescuing Men and Women, Hooligan Assists the Magician, Mysterious Cafe, or Mr. and Mrs ...
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Albert E. Smith claimed in his 1952 book Two reels and a crank: "I used my little daughter's set of wooden circus performers and animals, whose movable joints enabled us to place them in balanced positions. It was a tedious process inasmuch as the movement could be achieved only by photographing separately each change of position.
American stage magician, film director and producer (1875-1958)
